Turkey’s foreign ministry announced on Sunday that it has sent a letter to the UN, signed by two organisations and fifty-two nations, requesting that arms sales to Israel be stopped.
“We have written a joint letter calling on all countries to stop the sale of arms and ammunition to Israel. We delivered this letter, which has 54 signatories, to the UN on November 1,” said Hakan Fidan at a press conference in Djibouti, where he was attending a Turkey-Africa partnership summit.
“We must repeat at every opportunity that selling arms to Israel means participating in its genocide”,” said Fidan who added that the letter is “an initiative launched by Turkey”.
The Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation were the two organisations that signed, together with Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Algeria, China, Iran, and Russia.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, urged the UN to impose an arms embargo on Israel last month, claiming that this would be a “effective solution” to finish the war in the Gaza Strip.
